We cannot talk about the violence that Dylann Roof perpetrated at Emanuel AME last Wednesday night without talking about whiteness, and specifically, about white womanhood and its role in racist violence. We have to talk about those things, because R...

Not too ago long just 1904. In 1904, Ota Benga was kidnapped from Congo and taken to the US, where he was exhibited with monkeys. His appalling story reveals the roots of a racial prejudice that still haunts us.

The black clergymen who had been summoned to Harlem’s Mount Olivet Baptist Church for an emergency meeting on the morning of Monday 10 September 1906, arrived in a state of outrage. A day earlier, ...

Noam Chomsky: Reagan was an ‘extreme racist’ who re-enslaved African-Americans

In an interview with GRITtv’s Laura Flanders, linguist and political analyst Noam Chomsky discussed how the events in Ferguson, Missouri and the protests that followed demonstrate just how little race relations in the United States have advanced since the end of the Civil War.

An American museum has returned a 10th-century sandstone statue of the Hindu monkey god Hanuman to Cambodia, decades after it was looted from a jungle temple when the kingdom was in the throes of civil war.

The metre-high statue was stolen in the 1970s from the Koh Ker temple site near the famed Angkor Wat complex.

How the War on Drugs Contributes to the "1.5 Million Missing Black Men" We Charge Genocide: 1.5 Million Black Men (Missing in America)

Where did all the Black men go? Analysis of population data shows so many Black males have gone to prison, died of disease of accidents, or by violence, that Black females in many communities outnumber Black men by ratios of 6 to 10. A national policy of mass Black ...

Excerpts from the Opening Remarks delivered by H.E. Robert Gabriel Mugabe, the President of Zimbabwe, at the Fourth African-African American Summit (now known as the Leon H. Sullivan Summit), held in Harare, Zimbabwe in 1997.

The Slave Trade and Reparations: Closing the Gates..Molefi Kete Asante.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s recent essay on slavery and reparations in the New York Times (April 23, 2010) caused me to reflect on my previous critiques of several of Gates projects such as Encarta Africana, documentaries, and Wonders of the African World. Gates is ...

I have a vision of creating an online supplemental camp with an Afro-centric focus to expand on the ideas presented during Kwanzaa as well as during February (Black History Month). This camp would, by teaching about the academic accomplishments of African-Americans through reading Afro-centric history, cultural work and literature, reduce the reading achievement gap, as well as build a sense of pride in students to work and achieve.

Under the system of white supremacy there are poor white families. Some poor white families may even be poorer than some black families. But the question some may wonder is, if there is a system of white supremacy then how can there be poor white people within it?

I always tell black people that you must look at racism in the mind set of wartime. Take the military for example. You will never see a milit...

Granted. No one should be breaking into anyone’s home or shooting and killing dogs, but 23 years in prison seems a bit excessive. However, this is the sentence for the crimes committed by a young black male in the state of Florida recently. In the wake of pol...

I have read a number of articles from your Internet outreach as well as articles from other sources about the casualties in Liberia and other West African countries about the human devastation caused by the Ebola virus. About a week ago, I read an article publ...

One must remember that the vast majority of our ancestors enslaved were young from ten to sixteen. A very few in their mid to late teens. Who had been forced violently away from their families and tribes and place in a situation by strange pale complexion people who beat rapped tortured and psychologically manipulated into an unnatural conditipn until no memory of their hom...

There are two circumstances that can be interpreted as part of an ongoing attempt to destroy African people, both on the continent and in the Diaspora. One is the infamous Tuskegee Experiment (1932-1972); the other is the current existence and spread of the AIDS virus and Ebola

For forty years the United States Government via its Public Health Service (PHS) conducted a study of the effects of untreated syph...

Our mission is to unite every black family world wide ,We seek to foster a more unified and stronger black community in which our community is included and valued, by sharing ideas based on the challenges we .There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth.We could work together to end corruption and set a new agenda to restore the stolen pride and peace of Africa.